Ok, I'll admit I was caught up in the William and Kate nuptials last week, but while most of my friends were keeping score on all the fashions, I was loving this one word that kept popping up during the ceremony: betwixt

I understand it is used in the U.S. as well, but they use it so grandly in the U.K.

Is it completely interchangeable with between?

Really doesn't matter. I think I shall try to bring it back into prominence, though I think that Californians might be too independent to budge!

Oh well,
Sardith

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” ~Mark Twain, [pen name for Samuel Clemens], American author and humorist, (1835-1910)~

But, just betwixt you and me, how're you doing over there betwixt all of the aftershocks and Techtonic plate settling?

Sardith

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” ~Mark Twain, [pen name for Samuel Clemens], American author and humorist, (1835-1910)~

p.s. The one saying I think would be improved:
'caught betwixt a rock and a hard place'

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” ~Mark Twain, [pen name for Samuel Clemens], American author and humorist, (1835-1910)~